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Indyt(e, -dytt, -dite, v.¹ Also pres. p. indittand, p.p. indyte. [ME. indytyn (c 1440), indyte, e.m.E. indite, var. of Endite v.] tr. To put into, to express in, words; to compose in writing. Also, to dictate. (Chiefly in poetry, and commonly used as a rhyme-word.) 1535 Stewart 2487.
My dullie wit dowis nocht till indyte Of Scotland, … The dule, the dolour thairof 1536 Lynd. Answ. Flyting 60.
To indyte how that duddroun wes drest, … it wer ane pyne 1539 Treasurer's Accounts VII. 207.
To Maister Thomas Bellenden for his lauboris indittand the Rollis c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 32.
Thairof I wryte, And all his deidis I dar indyte c1552 Id. Mon. 1472.
Quhow, at more lenth in holy wryte This dulefull storye bene indyte c1552 Ib. 6109.
That maner of delyte, Quhilk passit naturall reasoun to indyte c1568 Lauder Minor P. i. 5.
And judge me nocht, that I have done indyte This lytle tractate of malice or dispyte a1568 Scott xiii. 8.
Sum luvaris thame delytis till indyte Fair facound speich a1605 Montg. Son. lxiv. 6.
I war to wyt … to indyt hir families defame 1622-6 Bisset II. 303/29.
This Tertius … wrait the said epistoll as Paule indytted it c1616 Hume Orthog. i.
As if a man wald indyte one letter to tuentie of our best wryteres

b. intr. or absol. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xlviii. 26.
Ȝit nocht incressis thy curage to indyt c1500-c1512 Id. liv. 2.
Now of ane blak [lady] I will indytt 1533 Boece v. x. 183 b.
vij wretaris successiue mycht skantlie … write with sic expedicioun as he wald indite c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2615.
Thocht I agane ydolatry indyte c1552 Ib. 3378.
As dois indyte Eusebius 15.. Clariodus i. 696.
Quhairof as now me list not to indyte 1570 Satirical Poems x. 56.
Tak pen … and wryte As we … sall indyte